I've suggested (& published in 18 journal papers) a new theory called quantised inertia (or MiHsC) that assumes that inertia is caused by relativistic horizons damping quantum fields. It predicts galaxy rotation, cosmic acceleration & the emdrive without any dark stuff or adjustment.My Plymouth University webpage is here, I've written a book called Physics from the Edge and I'm on twitter as @memcculloch

Sunday, 3 May 2015

MiHsC vs 29 anomalies

Someone pointed out to me this week that I tend to publish papers predicting one anomaly at a time with MiHsC (quantised inertia) and these are easy for others to discount, but a paper showing how MiHsC predicts all the anomalies would have more impact. MiHsC now predicts 29 anomalies quite well (and doesn't mess up non-anomalies). Of course, I have already published a book which presents most of the results together, but it's good to be succinct, so I have summarised all my published results, and some as yet unpublished, in this Table (click on it for a closer look):

The second column identifies the anomaly, column 3 shows the size of the observed anomaly, column 4 shows the MiHsC prediction of it, and column 5 is a brief discussion of the degree of success of MiHsC, and also mentions rival hypotheses, their degree of success, and how arbitrary they are. I have arranged the anomalies from the cosmic scale down to the Planck scale. It is always risky putting something like this up, because there may be errors, and some may disagree with my assumed cosmic acceleration for example, but I'm putting it up so people can make comments and correct me if needed.

The main point here is that my confidence in MiHsC is not due to its agreement with any one anomaly, which is rarely perfect, but the generality of all of them together (Introduction to MiHsC).

Apologies, but (potentially important) things seem to get lost in the noise at NSF:

Comment by Rodal on the Chinese experiments:

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Paul March has addressed and explained this as follows: Chinese (Prof. Yang) calculated loaded Q factors are much higher than the Q's reported by Shawyer and by NASA' Eagleworks because of the unorthodox way that the Chinese calculate their loaded Q factors. Instead of using the S11 zero dB reference plane to measure their -3dB down bandwidths from, as is done elsewhere, the Chinese use the most negative dB S11 value located at the resonance frequency and measure up 3dB toward the S11 zero dB plane. Therefore, of course, the bandwidth figures used by the Chinese in this unorthodox calculation are going to be ridiculously small which yields correspondingly artificially large values of the calculated Q-factor. Prof. Yang's most recent paper containing the embedded thermocouple temperature measurements spell this out very clearly.

BOTTOM LINE: We have to communicate in a common language. When discussing Q's for Prof. Yang's experiments we cannot use Prof. Yang's calculated Q's as they are artificially high due to her unorthodox calculation. Instead, the procedure followed by Zen-In should be followed, which gives the real Q (which is actually lower than the Q's measured by NASA Eagleworks or by Shawyer).

First, from Rodal, after an involved discussion with warptech and deltamass:

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Thanks !

Since the quick trip scenarios presented by Dr. White in his papers (that were paraphrased in the NSF article) assumed a constant acceleration under constant power, it looks like that there are two alternatives here:

1) At speeds v < m a = P/v => a = P/(m*v) therefore at constant power the acceleration is inversely proportional to the speed. Equivalently for constant acceleration the power needs to be increased proportional to the speed. Therefore the real performance of the EM Drive (for interplanetary missions or for going to Alpha Centauri) is much, much inferior to the calculations in White papers, and White with Joosten, etc. and they need to revisited.

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2) as Paul March proposes, White's QV theory is the other side of the same coin as Woodward's Mach Effect,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward_effect#Quantum_mechanics

for which they assume constant acceleration at constant power, and the energy paradox has to be formulated in terms of the inertial mass of Woodward instead. (All kinds of questions here remaining to be answered: is Woodward conjecture a real effect? is the EM Drive "thrust" due to Woodward Mach Effect? is there an energy paradox for Woodward's effect ?)

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And from Rodal, as part of a discussion on correcting for air currents/thermal effects:

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Excellent question. I think an answer is found by looking at the last pages: although there are a couple of posts detailing that Cullen (the first person to successfully measure the microwave radiation pressure in his PhD experiments) solved the thermal convection problem by using a mesh, there are countless replies here saying "Theories are theories. I will do exactly the same thing as Shawyer. " :) In other words: experimenters are doing what Shawyer did. Shawyer did not use a mesh.*******

The important bit here is Cullen (Rodal reviewed his 1952 paper, which dealt with a sort of 'EM Drive in a cylinder.' Cullen's paper is often referred to by Shawyer.

I need some assistance from you in understanding how MiHsC can modulate inertia in a practical fashion. Please, if you can, describe an experimental set-up (in a lab) whereby such inertial changes could be expected to occur.

One way to test for MiHsC in a lab is to produce huge local accelerations by whatever means, and look for the predicted local increase in inertia, which should appear as anomalous movements, or losses of weight. With your practical experience you may know of better ways to do this, but here are some possibilities:

1. Spin a disc very fast and weigh objects near it, but isolated from it. The weight should go down v. slightly (MiHsC increases its inertial mass slightly so its sensitivity to gravity decreases).

2. Weigh a superconductor as you let it warm up past Tc. At Tc the electrons decelerate, so MiHsC predicts the material's inertial mass should jump up briefly and the weight should go down (Modanese has seen something like this in expts).

One of the intriguing facts about dark energy is that it seems to act with enormous force over the vast empty spaces in our universe - pushing space apart, while not having any measurable effect on the scale of planets or even the solar system. This adaptive nature of dark energy has motivated the theoreticians Justin Khoury and Amanda Weltman to formulate the so-called 'chameleon' model in 2004. They suggested that the main actor of dark energy is a particle which interacts strongly in a high vacuum, while being screened in 'denser' environments such as on Earth or even in the Milky Way.

A coincidence indeed. I am reading his work now. He has a very interesting and unique approach but from what I read so far, he is still ignoring that space is an object. This "Unrah radiation" he uses is still based on virtual particles and not space itself and is only "created" (or seen) by moving objects. However, I particularly like his idea of a macroscopic Casimir effect because that certainly is a space-time anomaly.

If I were to use his ideas I would only use this "Unrah radiation" to describe the doppler shift of the space-time wave function as a result of the object moving. An object does not need to be moving in order for it to "feel space" and/or be perturbed by it. The Casimir effect is an excellent example of this. As far as the allowable nodes he wrote about, he kind of contradicted himself by stating that only certain wavelengths would be allowed between the object and the Rindler horizon because he assumed that the speed limit for light is what limited the transfer of information but then later suggests that the speed of light can vary under this approach. I find this contradictory because if the speed of light can vary then nothing would limit information exchange thereby allowing all possible wavelengths. There also is the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. In this situation, the transfer of information is not limited by light at all but is instantaneously transmitted directly through the space-time mechanism whether the particles are moving or not.

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From Deltamass in response to above:

McCullough has a paper "Newtonian gravitation from the uncertainty principle" which is very creative, but cannot possibly be right. Sitting next to me here is a Mettler mechanical balance that weighs down to half a Planck mass (10 ug). He asserts that anything smaller than mP does not gravitate.

Mike - with reference to your May 10th answer here, it may be worth looking at Richard Banduric's work at http://displacementfieldtechnologies.com/ and http://www.electricspacecraft.org/index.html . Richard has measured force from rotating one charged disc relative to another. The experiments seem to still be progressing nicely, though AFAIK he hasn't produced enough force yet to lift a quadcopter. He found the relevant force in Faraday's equations. You'll probably find it interesting to look at, anyway.

Simon: Thanks. Indeed, MiHsC predicts behaviour like this (weight loss for mutually spinning discs). With the information they give on the website it is not possible to calculate a MiHsC prediction. I'd need a disc radius, an exact rpm and a disc mass, but a rough estimate shows it could be the right order of magnitude. However, MiHsC does not need a potential difference, so that is a difference..